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  1. HCE 9 Assignment

    June 21, 2022 by Anna

    HCE 9- English Write | Adam's Blog

    This is a painting titled “Assimilation vs. Inclusivity” and the artist is unknown. This painting includes the topic, inclusivity.

    This painting shows how the indigenous culture fading into the new generation because the Canadian Government stripped away indigenous families and nations with their residential schools. In the picture to the right its very colorful and displays the uniqueness of the indigenous culture but on the left it slowly fades away in grey looking people, who almost don’t look real.

    This painting gives off very sad emotions.  the residential schools turned these children into someone they weren’t, making them forget everything about their nations and background. The Canadian Government tried to hide it and cover up their evil actions. Now newer generations have been given Generation Trauma from the amount of terrible things their ancestors had gone through in the residential school.

    I believe that this painting shows the very sad truth about how the Europeans stole the First Nations’ land and forced them to adapt to their European life style. By forcing them to cut their hair, not speak their language, and giving them food that was barely edible.

    I notice sad, bored, non human looking children on the left in this painting, this painting is showing just how much these residentials schools affected these indigenous children for the long run and how much they have changed from these tragic events made by the Canadian Government.

    The lighting is bright enough to show the sad expressions on their faces but it still looks dark somehow. There is a repeating pattern of a dull sad straight face almost filling the whole left side of the image.

    First nations cultures include a lot of bright colors and monochrome, so I believe the right side of this painting defines the respected, honorable side of First nations cultures we all see and know of. Then there’s the dull grey left side which looks sad.

    The government tried to hide both sides of the image because they were intimidated by First Nations enough to break them, they were intimidated enough to make them lose their Beautiful and honorable identity.


  2. Appositives: Restrictive and Non-restrictive

    May 10, 2022 by Anna

    Paragraph:

    An appositive is a noun that renames the noun next to it in order to clarify or classify the sentence. Appositives are used to add detail, reduce wordiness, and make a sentence easier to understand. It’s almost like Putting icing on a cake, you need icing to make a cake look and taste better. Without the icing a cake is just a loaf that’s plain and doesn’t taste good, and the same goes for a sentence that needs an appositive that doesn’t have one. An example of an appositive is: “my best friend, Josh, got a new car.” You can also think of appositives as adding two simple sentences to create a sentence with an appositive in it. “My friend went to the store” and “Mike went to the store” can be combined to create one sentence with an appositive; “My friend, Mike, Went to the store”. If an appositive is needed to understand what the identity of the noun or noun phrase is that is being modified, the appositive is restrictive, and if it is not required to understand the noun or noun phrase identity but it is still added that is called a non-restrictive appositive. For example, “Jim, my dog, will chew your shoes if you leave them there” is a restrictive appositive because you need to know that Jim is a dog. An example for a non-restrictive appositive is “my dog, Jim, will chew your shoes if you leave them there” because we don’t need to know the dog’s name to know the context. 

    Test questions: 

    1. An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that identifies or renames a noun that precedes it. True or false?

     

    1. Identify the appositive.”Jazzy, my cute little cat, cuddled up in the blankets with me.”

      a) jazzy b) my cute little cat c) Cuddled up in the blankets with me

     

    1. My friend, Sam, loves video games.

    Is that a restrictive or non-restrictive appositive?

    Answers:

    1. True
    2. b) My cute little cat
    3. restrictive

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  4. Indigenous Exploration

    March 11, 2022 by Anna

    Reflection:

    I think this has been the best and most informative COL assignment yet. It was all fun to do and I learned some things that I didn’t know before. The researching part of this assignment was very interesting and informative since this topic is something I enjoy learning about because it’s a very important topic that should be discussed more. I learned many new things I didn’t know for example, I didn’t know how to use Audacity so, at first I just played around with it a little to understand how to use it and I figured out most of the important things. We also had some trouble connecting the mic to Audacity but after trying many things we figured it out and it was something easy to fix. From this assignment I have learned many new skills for searching for information and websites to find more facts and details about the residential school we chose.

    Option 1: Critical Thinking:

    I have learned lots about residential schools in the past but I have never researched a specific school and learned so many details about it. I thought they all ran the same but a lot of them are different and some are way worse than others. After learning more about one school, I have realized how much even one of those schools can do and how much it does affect the people who have gone to these schools and how terrible they really were.

     

    Sources:

    https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/squamish-nation-survivor-of-st-pauls-residential-school-shares-his-story-north-vancouver-3962077  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Indian_Residential_School   https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/intergenerational-trauma-and-residential-schools  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/st-pauls-indian-residential-school-1.6136215  https://www.aquinas.org/about/sta-history  https://collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/index.php/Detail/entities/56  https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/st-pauls-investigation-announcement/  https://nctr.ca/residential-schools/alberta/st-pauls-blood/


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